We have a much shorter list of articles today as many people start taking time off for the holiday season. Over the next week, my posts may be inconsistent as well. The holidays always make for a lighter batch of articles, and the holidays also mean less time for me at the computer. On your… Read More Geek Reading December 24, 2015
It was a fairly slow news day, but there is still plenty of good reading. On DZone Agile, we can read about the “Recruiter Manifesto”. At Code As Craft, they talk about leveling up your organization with system reviews. If you are not reviewing what you are doing, how are you learning how to improve?… Read More Geek Reading December 23, 2015
There are four stories that top our news for today. First, VentureBeat reports on Toshiba’s plans to fire 7000 employees. That is a big number and hopefully those people can find work quickly. VentureBeat also gives us an excellent post from Steve Blank on how 1/3 of your team needs to be crazy. Crazy isn’t… Read More Geek Reading December 22, 2015
Dan Luu starts our week with an excellent post about big company and startup work and compensation. There are a lot of trade-offs when trying to decide between the two and you really do need to look at the differences. Paul Hammant gives us his take on the “iron triangle” and how he thinks it… Read More Geek Reading December 21, 2015
Google leads the day with their new accelerator for mobile startups, as announced on the Google Developers blog. It is not a huge thing, but it is good to see more of this kind of thing. Eric Leong has a great post on the types of software engineers. I have talked about it in the… Read More Geek Reading December 18, 2015
The big story of the day is the new Slack Platform launch. With this launch and the associated development fund, Slack is trying to position itself as a business platform to build solutions on top of. It will be interesting to watch how this really evolves. Mozilla now gives us more control over our data… Read More Geek Reading December 17, 2015
Leading our day, Hakuna Automata talks about 5 tips for cultivating psychological safety. The basic idea is that you need to know whether your employees can communicate honestly with leadership about their job. In most companies, this type of communication is avoided and sometimes actively discouraged. Liz Keogh writes about BDD, Behavior Driven Development, as a… Read More Geek Reading December 16, 2015
To start our day, Priceonomics has a story on the Guinness brewer who revolutionized statistics. There are a few interesting points here, the brewer is the source of “Student’s t” which is something I was always curious about. In our world of bigger data, statistics will become increasingly useful to more people. And you never… Read More Geek Reading December 15, 2015
Tomasz Tunguz starts our week with a post about organizational design in startups. Most companies will evolve over time, so there is some good information in this post. At Groove, they talk about how your best employees will quit and what you can do about it. Typically, your very good employees are constantly bombarded with… Read More Geek Reading December 14, 2015
Somehow, this blog made it to 8 years old without me killing it out of boredom or lack of time. I do enjoy writing, regardless of how little time I have for it right now. As with every birthday post, I hold out hope that I will start writing technical and opinion posts again in… Read More 8 Years And Still Going
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